Endangered Species

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation strongly supports the decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove gray wolves from the list of endangered and threatened species.

On Thursday, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission spent all day going over sometimes controversial subjects, with what spokesman Ron Aasheim said was ' a lot of passion'.

A lawsuit accuses the government of dragging its feet on deciding whether alligator snapping turtles and eight other species around the country need federal protection.

A Montana panel overseeing a sage grouse conservation plan has finalized guidelines for awarding $10 million in grants to help boost habitat for the imperiled bird.

Wildlife advocates have reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. government in a dispute over an endangered fish in the Yellowstone River along the Montana-North Dakota border.

A host of environmental groups are gearing up for a lawsuit against the Fish and Wildlife service over the lack of an endangered species listing for the wolverine.

The Obama administration has issued a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act aimed at streamlining the classification of threatened plants or animals. The Bush-era policy was withdrawn last spring after two federal courts rejected it...

A federal judge has reluctantly ruled to uphold a congressional budget provision that removed federal protections for the Northern Rockies gray wolf outside of Wyoming. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy says that binding precedent by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals requires him to rule against a constitutional challenge of the rider passed by Congress earlier this year.

Wildlife advocates went to federal court Tuesday to challenge a move by Congress that stripped endangered species status from more than 1,300 gray wolves across five states in the Northern Rockies.

Public opinion on gray wolves remains sharply split as Montana and Idaho prepare to resume hunts for the predators after Congress removed their endangered species protections. Montana wildlife commissioners meet July 14 to adopt a quota of 220 wolves to be killed during fall rifle and archery hunts.